Have ever been listening to someone talk and have déjà vu, despite the fact that you’ve never seen or heard of the person speaking, and the interview you’re watching happened just a few hours ago? I have. Once. A couple of weeks ago.
I was listening to Tucker
interview Xi Van Fleet, a Chinese native who lived through the Cultural
Revolution in China. She eventually
immigrated to the United States and has lived here for 40 years. As I’m listening to her talk about how the
Cultural Revolution rolled out and how she was seeing many of the same things
here I couldn’t help but think that I’d heard something close to this before.
And then it hit me, I had.
Exactly 40 years ago a defector from the Soviet Union, Yuri Bezmenov did an
interview about how the KGB was using what they called Ideological
Subversion to collapse the United States.
Now these two interviews weren’t remotely the same. One was from an KGB operative, someone who
was part of the suppression of the Russian people who became disillusioned and
defected to the west while the other is from someone who experienced the
suppression of the CCP and eventually immigrated to the US.
Nonetheless, given exactly 40 years apart, the two
interviews taken together paint a very stark picture of America today and going
forward. They reminded me of a technique
that is often recommended for effective public speaking: “Tell them what you’re
going to tell them. Tell them. Then tell them what you’ve just told them.”
Bezmenov lays out the KGB’s plan – Ideological subversion –
for sowing the collapse of America – and western Europe as well. It
involved 4 elements. He lays each one out in detail, or at least three of them
while 3# is obvious.
1) 1) Demoralization – 15-20 years. Time to re-educate one generation.
This is done through uncritically introducing the Marxist
ideology into schools without counterbalancing it with basic American values, patriotism,
and morals. Eventually a significant segment of the population will become
immune to accurate information.
2)
2) Destabilization – 2 – 5 years to destabilize a
nation.
The goal is to destabilize the nation via the economy,
foreign relations, and defense policy.
3) 3) Crisis – as short as 6 weeks to bring a nation to crisis. (George Floyd anyone…)
4) 4) Normalization – For this one I’ll let Bezmenov’s
words speak for themselves:
“This is what will happen in the United States if you
allow all the schumcks to bring the country to crisis, to promise people all
kind of goodies and paradise on earth.
To destabilize your economy and illuminate the principle of free market
competition and to put a big brother government in Washington DC with
benevolent dictators like Walter Mondale.
Your leftists in the United States, all the professors
and the beautiful civil rights defenders, they are instrumental in the process
of the subversion. Only to destabilize
the nation. When their job is completed,
they are not needed anymore. They know
too much. Some of them, when they get
disillusioned, when they see that Marxists / Leninists come power they get
offended they think they will come to power.
That will never happen of course.
They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”
Her story is a tragic one, but as she walks through it you
hear echoes of exactly what is happening in America today. For Mao, after 16 years of brainwashing the
children he sent them (the Red Guards) out to terrorize the nation. Violence was used, but also the control of
the language. Suddenly propaganda was everywhere. Everything old had to be destroyed while law
and order was dismantled and the police were told to stay out of the schools,
which were the beating heart of the Revolution, and additionally, if any of the
Red Guards struck them, the police were prohibited from reacting.
All of this resembles the indoctrination of two generations
of American students in the fiction of Climate Change, the gay and trans
agendas, as well as the manipulation of language and discourse via the
prohibition of words and ideas. The tearing down of statues. The defund the
police movement, the violence after George Floyd and the lack of consequences
for criminal behavior are exactly as Xi described.
Whether it’s climate activists, supporters of Palestine –
AKA antisemites, LBTQXYZ123# harassers or Antifa & BLM rampaging through
cities, they’re all playing their parts in the play written by the KGB and
taken over by western Communists after the Berlin Wall collapsed. What’s more, both of these refugees from
tyranny discuss what America is becoming, he predicted it and she’s chronicling
it. Whether it’s reporters being arrested or protesters being sent to the
gulag, or rich / popular opponents of the regime being harassed via lawfare,
the rules never apply to those in power.
It’s not that there are no rules, they just don’t matter. The Soviets had a constitution that guaranteed
a wide variety of civil liberties, and the Chinese constitution guarantees "citizens
of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of
assembly, of association, of procession, and of demonstration." We
have our Constitution which provides about as much of a limit on government as
a spaghetti strainer does on water.
The funny thing (as in not really funny) about all of this
is that the leftists who think they’re going to be running things once the
crisis blossoms into a full blown tyranny will likely be the first to go. Whether Stalin’s erstwhile supporters who
fell in the Great Purge or the Chinese Red Guards who fell to the guns of the
military, those who are at the vanguard of leftist revolutions often find
themselves victims of the very power they put in place.
As we watch our great cities devolve into crime infested
dystopian nightmares, as we watch George Soros impelled DAs and prosecutors smile
as they demonstrate their two tiered legal system, as we watch as the federal
government actively subverts efforts to secure the border and cities cut
services to citizens and veterans in order to gift illegals billions, as we
watch schools and hospitals and states empower the brainwashing and butchering
of children, and a we watch powerlessly as the Uniparty in Washington runs up
trillion dollar deficits and sends tens of billions to Ukraine, we begin to
recognize what Bezmenov called Normalization.
A decade ago Americans of most stripes would have understood that all of
this was a disaster in the making. But
now we’re told that all of it is not only normal, but you’re a racist,
homophobic, transphobic white nationalist if you disagree with any of it.
The outcome in November will decide which path we take. The thing to remember when we walk into those
voting booths is that Bezmenov and Xi had a place to escape to for freedom,
America. We don’t have that luxury. Vote accordingly.